Priya Alexander

Norman, I know you're on social media.

In some capacity.

Hashtag peptides.

Have you encountered it?

I went peaking.

I went peaking and it is ugly.

It's stuff marketed for anti-aging, gaining muscle.

A lot of it's deeply seated in diet culture.

Give your pennies, big promises.

And a recent study that's looked into this, it's pretty scary stuff with lots of potential harm and it's an unregulated Wild West out there.

I'm Priya Alexander.

And for a change, we're both on Gadigal land.

Hello.

Also on the show, a study that has looked at Parkinson's disease and potential big differences when it comes to gender, how you present and the kind of symptoms you experience.

First, we're starting with the Heart Foundation, which has launched its first clinical consensus statement on obesity and heart disease.

We do because there's a lot of... There's a lot of it about.

There's a lot of it about and a lot of emerging research.

But these guidelines are really giving clinicians, health professionals, cardiologists guidance on management of heart disease in people living with overweight, obesity.

And prevention.

But it is the first time that there's real clarity on the use of GLP-1 medications in the area.